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John Sloan's The City from Greenwich Village
Being a proper Renaissance man, I have amassed  a lovely collection of sophist writing on a variety of topics.  Dearest to me are the literary pieces and particularly "Bohemian Poseurs," which is a study of interwar Greenwich Village through the writings of Carl Van Vetchen and Floyd Dell.  In addition, you will find writings on a variety of esoteric topics.

When I write the words "esoteric topics," I mean esoteric topics, but in reality most of the pieces will be connected to Modernist thought and how it responded to the failure of narratives and, in the alternative, how Modernist narratives have failed or are still succeeding.



A Legal Mind Turned to Kafka's The Trial

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Photo of Franz Kafka
The actual title of this essay is "Intervening in the Kafka's The Trial.  It tackles The Trial with an inter-disciplinary voice as a legal orientated framework is used to study a novel that discusses the law.  What occurs is an study of the third party interveners that emerge to help the protagonist K.

Intervening in Kafka's The Trial
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Cover of The Trial

Bohemian Poseurs

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Self-photo by Van Vechten
This is a study of bohemianism in interwar New York.  It was done as a comparison through the works of the lesser known writers Carl Van Vechten and Floyd Dell.  Working through the works of these two authors, different sub-cultures emerge in New York and they circulate around the concepts of authenticity and posing. 

Bohemian Poseurs
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Floyd Dell Painted by John Sloan

Essays on John Dos Passos's U.S.A


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Painting by Luis Quintanilla
Find here a collection of essays that track the social and stylistic innovations that took prose construction to a new level.  This man attempts to capture machines and technology in a literary form that is marvelous and a marvelous failure.

Theory Essay
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Style in USA
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Technology in USA
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